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Ashley M
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Audaciously curious, straddling the line between hope and realism while working to deploy radical acceptance. But deeply petty…
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Day 2 Women’s History Month

Until the movie “Hidden Figures” was released, many of us had never heard of the brilliant Katherine Johnson.
She as a brilliant mathematician helping get NASA astronauts get the moon and back. Her specialty was calculating trajectories for Alan Shepard & John Glenn
March 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Why is my weather app more savvy than folks IRL? #cantmakethisup #isthisreallife
March 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them at one point as “targets.” The website lists mostly Black employees.
Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies.
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February 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Did you know that as late as 1958, people of color were displayed in 'human zoos' for the enjoyment of White audiences? The intent was to dehumanize entire classes of people in the name of science.

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy

rarehistoricalphotos.com/human-zoo-hi...
Human Zoos: The Western World’s Shameful Secret, 1900-1958
These shocking rare photographs show how so-called ‘human zoos’ around the world kept ‘primitive natives’ in enclosures so Westerners could gawp and jeer at them. The horrif…
rarehistoricalphotos.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Stop what you're doing & read this exceptional piece from @brennancenter.bsky.social's @mawaldman.bsky.social that explains how the pending SAVE Act will make it more difficult for Americans to vote, ending advances in online and mail in registration brennancenter.substack.com/p/restrictin...
Restricting the Freedom to Vote
The SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.
brennancenter.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans
January 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Nor am I!
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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New in PN: The "find out" phase begins

"Trump’s campaign was ugly, dystopian, and authoritarian. His first presidency was a disaster. A near majority of voters pulled the lever to put him back in charge anyway. Put bluntly, we, as a country, fucked around. And now ..."
The "find out" phase begins
Voters effed around. And now ...
www.publicnotice.co
January 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Woot! Commanders win! (Look we all need some joy sometimes)
January 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Listen up.
January 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Letters reveal a decadeslong strategy — starting with targeted programs for needy kids then expanding benefits to all families — by politicians, church officials, and activists who all believe that the separation of church and state is illegitimate.

By @alecmac.bsky.social
The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers…
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January 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And it’s gone plus Lemon8
January 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.
January 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 AM